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This Funny World
MeNaught Byndicate. Inc.- American Magazine
"The insurance money came today!"
YOUR BIRTHDAY
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 23
BORN today, ut are apt to be
strong-willed, Independent and self-reiland You know what you want to do and you intend to do 1, regardless of what others have to may Pund of travel, you own what is called a "gypsy foot" and probably wili wander over the face of the globe during your helime. Since you probably will select profesion or career wlifeli calls for considerable travel, you will not muffer from a budness point of view, You have a keen senne
in this regard and may become quite wealthy during your Kfetime,
4
You have a magnetic personality and make elends wherever your ga Your mense of humour and native wil make you a charming host or hostess and your home in likely to be the centre of social activity in your community. You have the gift of being able to offer good advice and will back it up with material
for
ald when the situation calls that,
and too. GeneTONIA
open- handed, you must make sure that
By STELLA
you are not imposed upon by those
who are unwaithy of your aid.
Original and Inventive, you are always the one to come up with a an old now, bright idea to solve problem. No matter what kind of a
rediroment you may find yourself in, you always neem adroit at Juinping out and landing on your feet. Music and the arts appeal to you, and although you may not be a porforming artist, you will be eager to sponsor those who have talent and need help. In later life much of your money may go toward becoming a patron of the arts.
Among those bar on this dnie were: Humphrey Bogart, Actor: Frederick J. Btion, explorer: George MaManus, noted cartoonist: Richard Alsp.
port: Thomas Todd, noted Jurk, and William Page, artist.
To And what the stare have in alore for you tomorrow, select your birthday star and read the cotre- pong paragraph. Let your blatis- day star be your dolly guide.
THURSDAY, JANUARY 24
AQUARIUS (Jan.
21-Feb. 19)- Be very careful to check all details
JACOBY
ON BRIDGE
Simple Hand Loses. To Greed
By OSWALD JACOBY
TODAY'S hand is very easy to
pky ! you're not greedy. If you try for an extra trick, worth
|
Pay
in any project offered you, ottention to basic facts only.
PISCES (Feb. 20-Mar. 20}-- The domesite erene should be ea pecially pleasant and contentment should right aupreme. Find happi- ness at home,
ADIES
(Mar. 21-Apr. 20) Misunderstandings could snowball into merious aquabhies if you don't watch out! Do your part to mediate; keep the pence.
TAURUS (Apr. 21-May 21) This bould be the perfect time to buy that engagement ring! Iomance is favoured,” also the purchinae 0% precious stones.
GEMINI (MAY 22-June 213
If contemplating. a long journey. then this could be a good day
Kit out You will find the stars are
niting.
CANCES
(June 22-July 23)---
you
If involved in matters where need to seek legal advice, take Alte out today to obtain all the
help you should have.
LEO
30 points you will wind up interretajeti felds are under
minus 100 instead of plus 1,480 points.
win The correct play is to with the ace of spades and then take the two top trumps. Even If the queen of hearts failed to
drop, you could then go
the clubs and eventually
after
give
up one trump trick,
When the hand was played
in a recent match,
WEST 4Q5432
97
Q10872
5
one player
NORTH (D)
▲ A
❤0042
•KS AAK9764
EAST AKJE
10 9 5 +J96
SOUTHE
10987 VAKJ3
+A43
4Q8
27
J 10 32
Both sides vul.
North East South
34 Pass 1
4
PASS OV
Pais Pass
Opening lend--✯ 3
West
Pans
Pass
took the nee of hearts, entered | dummy with the king of dia- monds, and then finessed the Jack of hearts,
West won with the queen of hearts and shrewdly returned a spade to make dummy ruf, This used up a trump entry before South had started the clubs. De- clarer was now dependent on a the 3-2 club Ineak, and when clubs broke badly he could not make his stam contract.
♥*CARD Serwe♣♦
Q-The bidding has been: North East South Weat
Diamond Pass 1 Heart Pass N.T.
Purd ? You, South, hold:
ADES VEG943 462 4874
'What do you do?
AP. Your first response wan strained, and it would be very dangerous to make another voluntary response.
TODAY'S QUESTION The bidding is the same as in the question just answered. You, Bouth, hold:
AFG VEQ0432, 462 4874
What do you do?.
Anewer Tomorrow
(July 24-Aug. The inedical profesiona and vellet auspices at this thine.
(Aug. 24-Яept.
VIRUG
3)-
ex<
If you have what you believe t be brand new Idey, go straight to the top for its adoption. Don't
go through intermediorien
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LIBRA (Sept. 24-Oct Spiritual affairs may come
in for important consideration, You may Wish to seek the navice of une who can help.
10-
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 223- Secrecy will get sou where day. Lame right out into the open and say what you want,
SAGITTARIUS (Nov, 21-Dec. 2z)— A fine day for a wedding-olther yours or that of a very dear friend. You may be one of the attendants.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 23-Jan. 20)- Don't pay any attention to a false
You can tumour.
get into real trouble if you let it läfluence your life.
CROSSWORD
Actum
1. 10 are marked tur muturista but wil seem to be full when you want them (713-5)
1. Wita kura. 170 master. 10
8. Donje go a different way,
14
16
751
11. You can depend on třilm kind
of chap. (8)
12. Partner for th.
491
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comwheel. (01
14. Are these domestle iteme navar tised in, saj, maisonettes 7 (4-51 The indy of the swan
17: Thin the animal
Drawiur. (4)
bit of
20. A 20. Fehly, chung.) (10)
21. The end of a crown. (3)
A Bin in too. (5)
23. Dread--by the Navy, (0. B)
Down
1. in thle laid down after opening
thousands of bottles? (4-5)
2. Vera 1 Tell the truth for
change (4)
3 You may start this automath-
cally after the Bre. (9)"
4. Pas with the N. mixed up in
IN (0)
6. Abous that Bayern phenomenon,
motorate (0)
4. They bay and irr. (5)
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Kate, (8)
HUN BADGE PAID
10, fed for
Can+ ÁF tarbury, (9) 19. Edg tor
18. “A book of
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THE CHINA MAIL,
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 28,
• BY. THE. WAY.
by Beachcomber
con-
A passenger in a car who ductor [frowned, and a third
1937.
WOMANSENSE
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De ce te to the A new look for Revolutionary Fashion Changes
N articlo denouncing the became interlocked, the keeps on offering the driver violinist, in trying to separate unwanted advice reminded me the combatants, knocked both that this gratuitous interference their Instruments to the floor. often ruins a symphony 'concert. Chaos get in, and the brass came in thiroo bare too soon. A year or two ago, at a con- "Wo shall soon have two of you curt in Carlisle, n violinist playing the same oboe," said Deaned across to another violin- the conductor, with bitter
1st and shifted his bow 10 a' sarcasma. + different angle. He then ncuially played a note or two on this other man's violin. The victim retorted by playing on the aggressor's violin. The bows
TARGET-
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words or four Letters or make can YOU ASKO from ch letters in the DAMATA G the left Tip making ch
EN word. cke
cach of the uminii aganten may be used once unly, ach word must contain the large letter in the pontre quare, and there must be at teast one nine-letter word in the
plural no Toreten
MOTIA по сторат Da TODAYS TAUGET: 38 words, good 53 wuede, very good: 70 words excellent. Bolution 10-
morrow.
dominant
YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION 1 AM admit amwit Ambe went antien kosinnt zien elem BADMINTON ball band bandit, bent, balan weetener lata maid main
dan disten deas dampin
n matte vir meer mest menad nation names tabed this simman tund,
AJ WAS THE made to putria. 2
bean HA
the entre letter, the
would be 11 weeks.
yueturday's
machison target
CHESS
by LEONARD BARDEN
A problem by B. 3. da G Andrade (British Chess Maga zine, 1044).
1
Solution problem:
to
Musical occasions
T Carmarthen this very year, a bluebottle, lokhged in the French horn, puzzled the con ductor. He thought the instru mentaist was trying to be funny. But the audience thought the buzzing was entrancing, after all the other noises they had been subjected to, They closed their eyes and thought of long summer afternoons by the
river.
En
("In "Musical Occasions," Mr Olat Moulting describes effective method of getting a forret out of a trombone with- out alarming the audience.) A memorable experience
FROM THE MOMENT when the drunken hero, who has murdered both his
wives, emerges from the large broken crate in which he lives among rubble, and fights three rate for n bit of staĵo fish, one realises the that here is something on
eple scale; inspiring, uplifting in its very fith, squalor, and bestiality....
(Film critic.)
the swimsuit
12-27
new
In Czechoslovakia
Prague. over, and a partner without'a
Hats are
nico
part of the
WOMEN'S fashions in the stalle, atra theatre. Men, woman wall a hat was lurext
staret
at
Czechoslovakia are now useli orton not even to shave, at in the street. Today, falling into line with Parle dinco: it was considered pru have largely replaced the head after eight years of produc Jetarian not to do so, and there. scurt, which has for years been
headgear uniform Ing rigidly practical clothes-form keeping with the the
changed social system.
Czechoslovakia. The current after the Soviet model.
taste is for hata elther (shaped Helped by П campaign In ice flower pole, or small flat The changed developing several newspapers, led by and aval. Both types are made gradually under the guidance of #bluda Fronta, the organ of of soft, hairy melusine in at. the State Research Institute for the state youth movement, for traptive colours. fashion in Prague, which sets more sense of the occasion in the Czech line. The Instituto Grech dress, this attitudo has produces four collections
a nowy virtually disappeared. year which are shown at foreign. Praque theatres are filled today fairs and fashion displays, main with smartly-groomed specta ly in other East European coun- tor, révailing in elegance those fries, before appearing in the of the Western capitals. shops here,
When the Communists came RETURN OF THE
to power hero ir 1943. Czoch DINNER JACKET
fashion followed, polities and
Moscow adopted the
Line, Fashion houses in Prague T elsewhere produced loose, prac- ileal clothes ity drab colours which did not show dirt and were considered equally suitable for running after a tram, driving a tractor, or a night at the Орета,
Even the dinner jacket, long frowned upon as the traditional dress of the bourgoodsle has been rehabilitated. At Prague oven ing. parties, more than half the men present usually wear 1
Within the framework of the line set by the Fashion Insitute, Later, leaders of Czecho- two leading state-owned fashion By GRACE THORNCLIFFE
slovakia's nationalised fashion houses provide for well-dressed A simple precaution
industry began to cast glances Czech women. organise In- tho Pretty nifty are
at Paris, but only for occasional dependent collections and even TN order to eliminate radio-bathing suits, the styles and de
and the "A" and engage in mild competillan. elive matter
Inspiration, from fluor-
different, that Last tails, so
Inca were studiously escent water, it is proposed to year's darlings won't dare un denounced here as yet another bulld gigantic porous filters themselves or take a dip from
instance of the decadence of lined with sorbrite. The residue now
resort on, Designed for
л
NEW CLINGING MODELS
of naphthex in the sorbrite wear is this black wool swim the West, would be neutralised by treating sult made with
weskit back the pre Altered fluorescent of checkerboard black, and water with cuphorium, which is white wool knit. The suit is rendered comparatively innocu-bare at the sides and back of us by a few drops of nethalin.waist, which gives a alim' il- After treatment the water houette. White pearl buttons
be transferred from would
form the front fastening. dehydrogenated tanks to peptle counteract hoyes. This would the action of small particles of dirt left over after the addition of a strong solution of mul- elphrane.
thai
Nothing to do with me
THE assistant sald
she returned a pair of pylons, and complained that they were yesterday's not the ones she had chosen. (News Bem.) They probably did not at her feld.
IR-Rich, K-B2; 2 B-Kach! (no 2 K-Kis, KtxPch), KixD;
3 K-Kt5, forcing mate,
Household Hint
the
In
A similar revolution has taken place in shoes. At the start of 1050, shops' still "" dis- played row after row of heavy, fat-heeled shoes even for sum
mer wear.
Today, the now long, narrow shape with fine needio heels are being produced for the first time at the former Bata factorica
Gottwaldov, Slovakia.
at
in
The switch to Western taste has not, however, been affected without incident. Five hundred pairs of the new shoes had to be returned to the factory rỡ. cently after indignant women protested that the high, alim heels had collapsed under them after only a few steps in street.
DUFFLE COATS AND NARROW TROUSERS
tho
with
Materials are still of tew good quality and higher price than before World War II. But they are improving rapidly In the men's fashion feld and many fabrics such as chif- 'craze for duffle coats, which are fon, talteta, brocade,
and now being produced in Czecho- Chinese silk in a wide assort- slovakia for the first time, s ment
of bright colours, ap- sweeping the male population. The new trend towards Paris peared here for the first time in Other "Western" favourites are while barrow trousers, bright red or years before Christmas, appeared first at a big fashion Swiss lace for evening dressa groen shirts, and shoes display organised in Prague last is available again after a lapse very thick rubber soles. But October.
Sponsored
by
no nylon, this col- of alx years. A new arrival is there are
or sylon, Institute, models in
the Czech Sylon,
version of shirts yet. the Ication reflected
clinging line from Paris and were halled nylon.
Suits for men or women are ng the most daring departure
Until recently... women wore expensive. With good material 1948 from previous
for nearly all occasions and in costing anything up to 550 all weathers, drab poplin rain- crowns (about £27.10 sterl The change in fashions is ac- coats or thick overcoats. Now ing), a ready-made companied by a major change coals made of brightly coloured costs between 400 crowns and crowns (£20 and £70 price of a in the attitude to both fashion woollen fabrics and often lined 1,400 and personal appearance among with fur worn inside because a sterling), while the
suit is any- both 7000 and women
fur coat is still associated in
In made-to-measure Chechoslovakia.
the popular mind with the thing up to 2,000 crowns C£100 luxurious living of the old sterling). A woman'e sull may bourgeoisie ate making the cost between 400 crowns and strecta of Frague brighter than 2,600 crowns (£20 and £125 at any time since 1948. -
sterling)-Ching Mall Special.
For your own safety, always use dry pot holdes or heavy | since towels in harkling a pressure Czech styles, cooker or canner. A long- handled fork can sometimes bo used to lift a weight or open a petcock, keeping your hand well out of range of the steam,
In removing the cover, always tilt the back edge up first so that escaping steam will be directed away from your face. :
BOYS' AND GIRLS' MAGAZINE
They're All Boxed Up
-Punch Says Jack, Snail and the Rest Don't Mind-
By MAX TRELL
46 JJE, deel very sorry for him.
Do you, Mr Punch?"
n bottom-most folks call them shells but it's a box just the same.
"He sticks his head out from time to time and pulls it
in
Mr Punch did noi hear every other time. He sticks his elther Knant or Hanld, lie legs out when he wants to walk shadow children with the and his tall out, too, when he turned-about names, although feels happy."
both of them shouted quite loudly in his cars. The fact of the matter was. Mr Punch was fast asleep.
However, after pushing and pinching him a bit he finally opened his eyes.
"What's that?" he said. "Whem don't I feel sorry for? What are you talking about?"
"I know someone who lives in
a box," Hanld suddenly said.
Mr Punch said: "Who?"
"Snail."
Mr Punch smiled.
"That's right. It's a round bex and it has a coVET. Soall
the Punch told
Shadows about his friend Tortoise,
dust his box, or sweep it, OT keep the furniture in place. I
can open it out from the inside. shouldn't be a bit surprised if Several minutes later, after And he hasn't any more room he were as happy as anyoso Mr Punch Was quite
wide- inside his box thai Jack-in-the- plea awake, Knart and Honid ex- Box has, But no one has over plained that the one they felt heard Stall complain, have sorry for was Jack-in-the-Box. they?"
"And why do you feel sorry for him?" Mr Punch asked.
Lives In A Box
"Because he lives in that box," saki Knari.
"He has hardly any room at all," said Hanid.
IL
"No," said Hanid.
"Just consider this. You open up the top of his box and he springs up. But he doesn't ever spring out. You see, he doesn't want to leave his box, He must
"I know someone, too," said " Knorr. "It's Turtle. No one ever heard him complain."
Doesn't Complain
**Jack doesn't complain, either," said Hanid, "Only wa
Knarf and Hamid agreed that Mr Punch was right,
"Now can I finish, taking my nap?" Mr Punch asked.
"Certainly," said Knart.
"He can't stretch or move or feel sorry for him because ho said Hanid. “I'm sorry we dis-
do anything," said Krarf..
seemed to be so uncomfortable inside his box,"
"Of course you can, my dear,"
turbed you."
when
"Anyone who lives in a box is
"Sometimes," said Mr Punch, cald Kanid, "Well, I guess maybe he's just "I wish I lived in a box. Then very unfortunate," "and we both feel sorry for as torry for you, living in a box
no one could bother me us big as this playroom," said I'm trying to take a nap." him,"
hasn't got Mr. Punch," Jack room to run around. But Jack And with that Mr Punch shut can't fall. And Jack never has to his eyes and was soon snoozing.
Hera, Mr Punch shook his head slowly from side to side feel and finally sak: "I don't sorry for him at all,"
"You don't!" exclaimed Hanid. "I don't," said Mr Punch, "I have quite a few friends who spend all their lives living in a box. They wouldn't move out of their boxes, even if they could,"
Strange Friends
Knant and Hanid both wand- od to know the names of Mr Punch's stronge trlenda who apont their lives in a box and who wouldn't move out, even if i they could
"Well,"
Mr Punch. beston's my friend Tortoise. Ham boom eating, "alveping and walk- ing around in a box for yours→ two or thron bunden?'Yeons, I Ristic, +10%. Apus he' bendit, aner
aldes toʻkia' bonjunt a top and .
Rupert and the Windy Day-1
One morning, before going out. /'above to burn away when the light Rupert gates frous his window in appears again; Basting bevara! case any of his pals are in sight. Ha ̈"tions. · ·În souse excitement be runė caq sad nobody, but as he looka,a to ask his Daddy if he can go to A light point of light appears for a momant⠀⠀⠀oon what le stappening. beat the top of a distant iies. He up a tree!" says Mr. Beat, it status harder and then thinking hamunda, very unlikely 1: Oo if you - must have been mistaken, be: se^Mike. -¿Don't be too long."
VALEYRIGHTE SVIRAVED
Only a year ago it was tre quent to see a woman in check shirt, or high-neck pull-
a
man's sult
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